Correspondence, conference material, proposals, reports, most concerning the Regional
Learning Service (RLS) of which Kordalewski was the first executive director, and
the Education Information Centers (EIC) set up by the RLS.

Jean Kordalewski was a pioneer in the field of adult education, particularly in the
areas of connecting people with educational information and services, and widening
their options through education, career and job counseling. She was a consultant
for and later the first executive director of the Regional Learning Service (RLS),
which today (2006) is the RLS Career Center and which provides assistance and information
to adults wishing to find, change or improve their employment. RLS began as a project
of the Syracuse Research Corporation in 1974; Kordalewski was instrumental in establishing
it as an independent, non-profit agency. She also worked on various projects aiming
to recognize non-traditional learning such as the External High School Diploma program
and the External Degree Program.

The Jean Kordalewski Papers reflects Kordalewski's interest in a wide range of adult and continuing education
issues, particularly her work with the Regional Learning Service (RLS) and Education
Information Centers (EICs) in Central New York.

Correspondence-subject files contains letters, proposals, meeting minutes and other material relating to a variety
of adult and continuing education activities such as the External High School Diploma,
the External Degree Program, relevant state legislation, Guidance Team Training, and
more. Conferences and workshops includes correspondence and conference material from conferences which Kordalewski
organized, participated in, or presented at; of particular interest are the EIC Training
Workshops which cover a number of relevant issues for EIC personnel such as serving
special-needs population and publicizing the value of EICs; and the Regents' Regional
Conferences. The Education Information Center (EIC) series, arranged chronologically to better represent the evolution of the EICs, includes
client surveys, reports, summative evaluations, project descriptions and more. The
Regional Learning Service (RLS) series includes two proposals for funding, press releases for a regular Madison County
newspaper column, weekly reports, and an important paper by Stephen K. Bailey and
Francis U. Macy, "Regional Learning Service: A Design for Educational Flexibility" (1974). (Bailey, a New York State Regent and Chairman of Syracuse Research Corporation's
Policy Institute, and Macy, also of the Policy Institute, formulated the notion of
a brokering service that would provide career and educational counseling to adults;
one result of this was the RLS.) Four folders of Miscellaneous printed material complete the collection.

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"The Heavenly Seven" 1978-1979
- informal name of an organization formed of alumnae from the Seven Sister schools (Bryn
Mawr, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Smith) focused on womens'
careers; bulk concerns "DIRECTIONS," a workshop offered by the group in Sep 1979